that partial translucence & sweaty radioactive shine

willing to bet that in life the pharoahs looked like boiled sweets

politicians influencers royals celebs billionaires: they all look like boiled sweets

they all look like boiled sweets anyway

It's so calm in this part of Kent. Except on Garden Control Day.

M: I thought you were in the study. When you came in from the kitchen I was quite surprised. C: [smiles] Can the universe have the Bhudda Nature?

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the cat we're cat-sitting is out on the patio eating a mouse he caught & killed to celebrate our arrival, while I sit inside eating half a marks & sparks ham and cheese sandwich

Destroyed place https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/destroyed-place-1920

Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

Yesterday too bad to describe.

it's low tide all over, today

That’s a bit much to say about the new Director General of the BBC

Cheers👍🏼Great photo, Roy

#Evening #cloud #Photography #loughNeagh #NorthernIreland #EastCoastKin #reflections

R4: Yes! We'll make sure you know all about the show, *as if it's news*, even if you deliberately avoided watching it!

At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years. Read my thoughts on translating it: substack.com/home/post/p-... Or purchase a copy: www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T... #japaneseliterature

Absolutely.

medusa of the everyday; brilliant cover

I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable

quite a lot of fog

Great to be at Foyles last night to support the shortlisters for the 2025 Goldsmiths. Many congratulations to CD Rose! (A pleasure to pick up my belated trophy, too. Thanks, everyone.)

A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

Still the best prize. We lucky recipients represent a rare club.

Tonight's the night

a beautiful thing on its own

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.

Some good news about a forthcoming US reprint--more on that when I have details.

that night, above the meadow, there were twice as many Jesuses in the sky as usual

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

HERE IT IS!!!!!

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

so hey at least we know how John Lewis is kickstarting its countdown to christmas, thank god for some good news

will I see you tonite

Yesterday I finished Course of the Heart, an astonishing book by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social and had incredible dreams all night. #books

The sunken land begins to rise again.

Last week at a Brussels thinktank conference I heard the US openly referred to as "our former ally". This week we learn that the US climate delegation is going around threatening to put European climate negotiators on the US sanctions list if they don't agree to wreck our climate.

sketch a short scene for a story then realise it's done the job & you don't need to write the story

Halloween Barnes

‘I wrote a fan letter to David Thomson. In his reply, he urged me to develop interests other than film. That was Spielberg’s problem, Thomson said – he didn’t know anything else. But there seemed little danger of that in my case.’ Leo Robson’s teenage film obsession: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...